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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96082	Swearing denyed in the New Covenant and its pretended foundation rased. VVith the remnant of lies swept away. And the great and glorious name of Jesus highly exalted, above every name, to which powerful name, all swearers, and false swearers, and lyars, fighters, plotters, and persecutors, who are in the strife against the Son of God, must bow and submit, or be broken in pieces, for his wrath is kindled and his glittering sword is whet, to take vengeance of all those that will not have him to reign over them, in truth and righteousnesse, to the glory of God the Father. By Morgan Watkins.	Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1069; ESTC R225425	11,352	15

once or twice before and now swear for that which formerly they swore against there are but few but who are in the Truth that will loose any thing for want of swearing as is made manifest to all that can see and also those that love the Pope and those that love the works of the Devil are unlikely by swearing to come to love the King or be made true Subjects to him but those that love God and keep his Commands are they that truly honour the King and will be found faithful to him But something further to the Prophet Isaiah his words which are and be that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of Truth but he that is redeemed from the earth sweareth not in the earth but abiding in the Truth swears not at all for the former things are past away and the Son of God is come the promise of God in whom the Prophets end and all the promises o● God in him are yea and in him Amen unto the glory of God by us 2 Cor. 1.20 for the word of God the Son of God Jesus Christ the Truth of God who was preached among the Coriuths by the Apostle and others was not yea and nay but in him was yea and he that abides in the word and the word in him as in the Son of God who is yea and amen in Truth and Righteousnesse is in yea but against Truth and Righteousnesse is in nay and what is more then this cometh of evil but he that is in swearing is in the transgression out of the Truth and fallen under Condemnation Isaiah prophecying in the time of the Law when swearing was lawful as Circumcision and other Ordinances were as meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal Ordinances imposed on them until the time of Reformation Heb. 9. ●0 and the Prophet speaking of the calling of the Gentiles who knew not God nor sware by his Name but by their Idols and false Gods and also of a remnant of the Jews that he would bring forth out of a great number who were departed from him that were as a smoke in his nose whose Name should be left for a curse whom the Lord should slay and call his Servants both Jews and Gentiles that sought him by another Name who were to inherit his holy Mountain the which glory he mentions by way of illustrating the Jews worship in its purity which was to speak to their capacity figuring forth the glory to come which was to them invisible by their worship in its purity which was visible and outward and also that they should build houses and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them and should enjoy the work of their hands and it should be speaking by way of comparison as the children of Israel bring an Offering in a clean vessel into the bonse of the Lord Isa 66.20 And I will take of them for Priests and for Levites and it shall come to passe that from one new Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord vers 21 23. so here you may see the things mentioned under the Law which are but the shadow of the good things under the Gospel and where the substance is come the shadows are abolished and again when it is said under the Law every tongue shall swear when the Apostle Paul mentions the same Scripture in the time of the Gospel Mark he saith every tongue shall confesse to God as for example Rom. 14 11. For it is written as I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall onfesse to God Now see how it is written by the Prophet where Paul quotes it Isa 45.23 where it is written every knee shall bow every tongue shall swear here you may see plainly the Apostle changeth it from swear to confess because swearing was not to among Christians and Paul again in the Philippians 2.10 11. where it is again mentioned in these words that every tongue shall confesse and not swear that Jesus is the Lord and here you may plainly see that the Commandement being changed there was as necessity that the words should be changed according to the command of him who said swear not at all that his Name may be known to be above every Name of men and Angels Now this were enough for those that are not blind to see the Command changed by the Apostle himself but those that will not hear the voice of his Son who speaks in their Consciences will hardly hear the voice of his Servants though they speak by his Spirit Now I come to lay before you the Command of the Apostle James who saith But above all things my Brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth Mark neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay least ye fall into Condemnation James 5.12 Consider above all things is a word of mighty importance that above all snares of the Devil we keep out of this which above all things brings such dishonour to our Lord Christ but those that know not his glorious Name are blind in this thing for above all things in this his glory is chiefly concerned who is Gods Oath and Covenant in righteousnesse and truth and every true Christian is in Christ Gods Covenant in righteousnesse and truth first being in the Covenant is not in himself but in the power of God 2. Being in his Righteousnesse can do no wicked thing and therefore an Oath is uselesse here for it undervalues the power and righteousnesse of God his Oath and Covenant which is to create us again in his own image in his Son Christ Jesus which is the birth that sins not which the wicked one cannot touch 1 John 5.18 Thirdly he that is in the Truth Christ is in that which the Devil is out of and there is no lye in Christ the Truth and the that is in him speaks the Truth and doth the Truth that he is in the Spirit of Truth that cannot lye but he that swears he will be true answers not the witnesse of God in mens Consciences but rather judges himself not true but will be and this will which is out of the truth is mans in which the power is not for 't is not in him that willeth Rom. 9.16 for Christ the Truth is the will of the Father brought forth in every true Christian which will is our sanctification 1 Thess 4.3 The word is truth which sanctifies sanctifie them through thy word thy Word is Truth John 17.17 and he that is sanctified through the Truth sheweth forth the Life Truth and Righteousnesse of God which ends Promises and Oaths in him who is Yea and Amen for ever and ever But the true honour in which God the Father is glorified is in confessing that his Son Jesus Christ is Lord in bowing and submitting to his great Name which is his power in giving

for that ye ought to say if the Lord will verse the 15. Now to say I will swear if the Lord will or if the Lord help me is a tempting of God and willing of him to help to break his own command or to help him to perform that which he commands him not to do therefore leave off now ye swearers and false swearers and forcers to swear for the Lord will rebuke you with his fiery indignation For the power that should perform the Oath is in him who is the Oath Truth and Covenant of God to us ends the Jews Oaths and Covenant who saith swear not at all why because saith Christ that hath all power thou canst not make one hair white or black so here is man's power and absoluteness denyed who could not keep the first Covenant which became to him unprofitable in that it was weak Heb. 7.18 So he who required perfect obedience finding fault with it which could make nothing perfect took it away that he might establish the second in which alone God's power Christ Jesus is absolute who hath obtained it by the denyal of his own will as he was man and in that his State of humiliation took not upon him absoluteness but said I can do nothing of my self Joh. 5.30 and here sware not or as I may say from his own words could not swear of himself for himself he denyed but confessed which word Confesse under the Law was Swear to the glory of the God the Father in whom the power was absolute and therefore he might swear who was of all power to perform his Oaths Who is the head of Christ 1 Cor. 11.3 who sware not and commanded all whose head he is not to swear at all so he that swears dishonoureth his head and doth contrary to his Command and also his example who whilest he walked upon Earth it cannot be proved he sware at all and the Apostle saith he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 Joh. 2.6 Now he that swears breaks his Command dishonours him whom he calls Lord and walks contrary to him who is given to his people for an example and leader a Commander and the Captain of their Salvation the oath of God who ends oaths and did not swear but made a good Confession to the glory of the Father and said swear not at all Object But if any say though we have not power and are not absolute of our selves we swear but to our power and so say help me God Answ If thou hast not power thou art not to swear least thou forswear thy self and if thy power be in Christ thou canst not expect that he will give it thee to break his command for saith Christ without me ye can do nothing John 15.5 that is to say well-pleasing to God but it is not well-pleasing to him to break his Commands as many can now witness that have done it to their misery who are under dreadful Judgement tormented Now he that swears sins and doth it against Christ and so without him for in him is no sin but the power of darknesse being head and the eye blind whereby the Command should be seen and felt to be the will of God the understanding comes to be darkned and man takes counsel in this state of his enemy the Judas in his own heart who betrayes him by a pretence of liberty and thereby brings him in to bondage and condemnation but where the power is witnessed the Command is kept which denieth swearing and cannot call God to help to break the Command of his Son whom he hath sent to do his will in whom he is well pleased Object But the Prophet Isaiah spake of swearing and as we judge hath relation to the Gospel times Isaiah 65.16 Answ Christ Jesus our great High-Priest Prophet and King is come is whom the Law and the Prophets are fulfilled and ended and he that is in him is in Truth and as he walks in Truth he answers the witnesse of God in all mens Consciences which is a surer Testimony then an Oath because it stands in the power of God and the endlesse life so that the life of the Son of God manifested in man and reaching to the witnesse of God in all Consciences ends the occasion of an Oath caused through unbelief or doubting of the Truth in a man for one who is in Christ to put his Brother who is in Christ to swear because he cannot believe him is as it were to undervalue or put a lye upon the Truth and dishonour the holy Name by which he is called for he that is in Christ knoweth that he which is born of him cannot lye for he is kept by the mighty power of God that the wicked one toucheth him not John 5.18 so among the Brethren in Christ there is no place for an Oath for there is no strife there is no lye there is no fighter plotter killer murtherer nor disorderly person but here is the true fear of God and they that honour the King here is Christ the head of his Church and every Member is his own order those who trouble them when they have all said done scandalized reproached persecuted them and tormented themselves with their vain labour must lye down in sorrow and confesse these are the Kings best Subjects who lift not a hand against him neither can plot nor contrive the least evil against his Person and just power for what they do against his Person or just power they do against their own life and the Truth they do professe for as we abide in the Truth we can do no wrong to him nor any man else for Truth cannot wrong any man neither those that are in it but labours for the good of all men that all might come to the knowledge of it and be saved for he that walks in this path must do to every man as he would have every man to do to him and this Law shall out-live all Laws to the contrary and this way and they that walk in it shall prosper and all other shall soon decay Object But some may say though some may be believed that walk as Christians yet others that walk in deceit are not to be believed Answ I say that those who are not in Truth are not to be believed though they swear for being in the transgression are captivated by the power of darknesse who rules in the Children of disobedience and these make little Conscience of an Oath and lesse to break it for it is grown a fashion or custom to take it and also to break it for you may see how little stead it stood the King in formerly and how little it advantaged all the several powers since and it will stand them in as little stead now who trust to it for how did the Magistrates under the former powers swear against King and House of Lords and it may be had sworn

obedience to his Commands though it cost us the losse of all even the laying down of our outward lives this is a good confession and as Christ himself who sware not but made a good confession before Pontius Pilate in the obedience of his Fathers Commands and submitted to the death and abode in his Love and obtained a Name which is above every name and as he abode in his Fathers love so we must abide in his love which is by giving up to the obedience of his Commands who saith swear not at all and those who love him and follow him obey and honour him And the Apostle James who spake by his spirit said above all things my Brethren swear not and saith Christ if ye love me keep my Commandements Joh. 14 1. and saith Paul if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be acursed 1 Cor. 16.22 But they who imprison and persecute the people of God because they will not break the Commands of Christ they love not the Lord Jesus Christ and wo is their portion it had been better they had never been born for as many as are come into Christ their yea is yea and their nay nay and are out of Condemnation for there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ but where their yea is not yea nor their nay nay they are out of the truth and there is the lying swearing and for-swearing and swearing cannot bring into the truth for it is against Christ the Truth and James his Command the Apostle of truth and is under the Condemnation But the Common Objection among men who know not the truth is this which Paul mentions in the 6. of the Heb. and the 16. In these words for men verily swear by the greater and an Oath for Confirmation is to them mark not to us an end of all strife Answ The Apostle in this place mentioning the practices of men which sware in the old time who sware by the greater that it might be the greater ingagement to them to perform their Oaths and to confess the God of Heaven to be the greater because it was the practice among men to swear by the greater and a command to the Jews and so the Lord willing more abundantly to confirm his promises to the seed sware to man by himself who was the greatest that in old time men were to swear by but in the new Covenant old things were done away and all things were become new Object But if it be said the Apostle spake to the present practice among men Answ I say it may be the practice among the Jews at this day who are in the unbelief cut off but if it be it is sin to them as is all the rest of their Ordinances which are ended in Christ being that thereby they go about by the practice of them to establish a righteousness of their own endeavoring to make voyd the righteousness of Christ who by their practice deny him to be come to whom Christ said If ye believe not that I am he you shall dye in your sin and whither I go ye cannot come Job 8.21.24 Object And again if it be said that it was then a practice among men and an Oath or Confimation is to them an end of all strife Answ I say it is a practice among men at this day who are in strife but both these practices swearing and strife are evil and under Condemnation being both out of the truth against Christs Command practice and against the Apostles Command and the practice of them who walked in truth and it is so common now that it is grown into a form of ungodlinesse and all in it are far from truth that they cannot believe one another without an oath nor then neither for as swearing is common so also is for-swearing for without an oath little Law or Justice is to be had nor then neither for him who is in truth but if a man can swear he may soon have a Lawyer to lye for him if he be well paid before-hand for he can draw up a form of lyes and say it is a form of Law And this is the way men take to end their money and to begin the strife which many times continues while their money lasts and then it may soon be ended at home by their neighbours for these things the Land mourns and grones under these heavy burthens Again if it were a practice among men let us consider what men it were that it was practiced among whether they are men of the World or men in Christ which were new men but I shall make it appear to be among the men of the World the carnal men who were in strife and there the oath and swearing was to end it but Christ the Truth where he is received and witnessed strife comes to be ended the Oath not to be used but that it may appear what men it were read Jam. 3.14 15 16. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the Truth this wisdome is earthly sensual and divelish for where envying and strife is mark there is Confusion and every evil work Can any be so blind as to think these things were among the Apostles and owned and practiced among the Brethren of Christ who walked in the Spirit for these were the fruits of the flesh the works of Babylon which is Confusion and there is every evil work which was not among the elect People of God for those that are carnal walk as men saith Paul what men Such that are in strife and swearing 1 Cor. 3 3. For ye are yet carnal for whereas there is among you envying and strife and Divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men Here is the word men answering the words for men verily swear which men you see the Apostles reproves here and in divers places and in Rom. 13.12.13 Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the Armor of Light let us walk honestly as in the day not in Rioting and drunkenuess nor in Chambering and wantonness mark not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ Here you may see that strife is condemned to be one of the works of darkness in such who had not put on the Lord Jesus Christ and these be the men that have not put on Christ who are in strife and swear to end it and saith Paul let nothing be done through strife c. Phil 2 3. And the Servant of the Lord must not strive Tim. 2.2 So it is sufficently proved that the Oath and Swearing was among them that walked not in Christ the Truth but among such that were Carnal and walked in darkness in which they are now that are in envying and Strife which be evil works and they that swear do another evil work to end it and here the beginning and the end is evil being the work of the